Posts Tagged ‘Trojan Horse Plot’

Peter Clarke's report to Parliament on the allegations concerning Birmingham schools and the "Trojan Horse" letter was published last Tuesday. It makes clear that, regardless of who wrote the letter, ...
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Plenty of critics of the Government's education reforms have latched on to the Trojan Horse plot in Birmingham as "proof" that granting schools more autonomy is dangerous. See this piece by Fiona Mill...
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listen to ‘How do you teach schoolchildren to be more British? ’ on Audioboo How do you teach British schoolchildren to be more British? On this week’s Telegram podcast, Toby Young and Janet Dal...
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From my Evening Briefing. Sign up here Michael Gove settled a row with Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of Ofsted, about why no-notice school inspections were not introduced in 2012. The row ended in Mr ...
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Governments which have little or no sense of a guiding purpose beyond balancing the books and staying in office are always at risk of appearing confused and divided when they are hit by events. Of co...
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The first thing you need to know about the Park View school – the institution most prominent in the Islamist Trojan Horse story – is that it is not a faith school. Nope. That fact is important bec...
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What lessons should we learn from the Trojan Horse school scandal? The first – and there’s no point ducking it – is that it’s again been demonstrated there are small elements within the Muslim...
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Trojan values and localism. I don't know why people pretend that this is so hard. It really isn't. Localism means giving parents, teachers and governors the maximum freedom of choice, consistent with ...
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Secular fundamentalists think all their Christmases have come at once – or should that be Wintervals? The controversy over a handful of secular schools hijacked by Islamic fundamentalists in Birming...
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